Agreed. This article, and those like it, essentially support their thesis with a bunch of examples, which doesn't really measure or prove anything. I can think

Agreed. This article, and those like it, essentially support their thesis with a bunch of examples, which doesn't really measure or prove anything. I can think of a number of circumstantial arguments that would indicate technological progress is growing. For example, that world population is at an all-time high, and therefore most likely more people are working on research than ever before. However this doesn't actually prove anything either.